Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-31

great fathef or waite s: Aas-Alaska alone
From jefferson on VIC have been gaining, u
! spread oGt this shadow, II keep It from suffo
eating us in the narrow compass of the few
states on the other side, that found II paid anC
so Deld 1t; at least they imagined It paid but IL
I truth this war has burden lifted alike from
/ the shoulders of both races, and "a freeing ont
/ both are freed. Friends, now remember tbs
! very coil we stand on was acquired by oul
! dIfc- ences on this great M attsr-and who is he
/ or where can be found the heart that joys not
that he is Texan and bresthes the pure all
of his grand Lone Star state: But let us tur.
/ t. these sad rites before us.
Soldiers have this 10 Eay-which your con
science can but approve-had iJ been left to u;
when AppomattoX cane to dwell together iI
peace and good Will, without ali these d RI
years between, we would nave wound orr arms
around each others necks ana ordered q rest
at arms as sick of war, even as I did on
I this field on this second day after | had with
that grey line from Seminary Ridge swept
down, like whirlwind, into ths reach orchard
there, and got this empty sIsev". Then
when on the instant our boys
"a sc M and took your red
race was run and nv duty done-called to my
aid two of these same crimson ads and
placing nv arms about the neck of each we
pass q in friendship to the rear, each ceprecat-
ing war.
I nave selected this map ana this battle field
IS an object lesson, not Onl. for ourselves to
study, b II that our children may see how ter
riDie Is war, ana how grandiy W. lost and won
on iEis day-thi7 day, at O'Clock "a the after
noon Of July ,, 1853, was
IHE SUPREME MOMENT
of the Confederate States of America. See on
what slender threads DO hang the greatest
deCcs just as we started from Seminary
Ridge 10 sweep through ihas val ey Of death,
and gain the Two Round Tops and DEVILS Den
between, and Cemetery Hill, 20 their left
(i4UO yards away, your " aTren, Just In the nick
Of tiiue, saw that these Two Tons were the key
to this field, and A. once secured them against
Laws Ala6amian5, Andersons Georgians and
Hoods gallant Texans.
But. mind you, in choosing this field, / would
NOT detract one laurel from thOusand,ot
az hOtly contested, won by the blue or gray. as
fortune turned her wheel. But | tell YOU that
which you yourselves do know, that the Issue
here fought cut viii ever remain the greatest
prize ever sJaked on single gauge of Rattle
1t was struggle Tor the universal brotherhood
OF man. HefDre the DAllle OF SnaTpsburE, Mr.
Lincoln oil not seek to intrude upon US his
personal wishes of universal freedom he de
sired TO keep Wellin The line Of his official duty,
which was The salvation Of the union. After
Snarpsburg he first ray OF light IN had shone
for the union began To shine from that field.
He saiD, u promised my Sod that If he would
grant this nation another victory I would free
the slave, as in furthgrRnce Of the salvation
OF the union" II was then nc determined to pro-
claim bis personal wish into his official duty
and say every person everywhere s. ould be
Gettysburg was out the contamination OF that
proclamation. For on July we began the re-
treat and Nicksburg fell, and the curt-ins began
10 ring ubWu on Inc drama or Inc JDn1GQeTGCT,
Before these two battles he proclaimed his puT-
pose thus CON August -, 1862, in reply TO HOr-
ace Greclvl. "Niy paramount object IS TO save
Che Union, and not either to save or destroy
ELysry. Ii could save the Union without
freeing the slave ! would DO It. / shall try 10
correct errors when shown to DE errors. ! shall
adOp! new views rs fast as they appear TO be
rue Views. here have stated my purpose &C
Cording to my official duty. iotcrd no mod'h
cation OF m Oft expressed p 5rsonal wish, that
al men everywhere should be free Then the
war ragged on notwithstanding the srcat heart
OF the COnttucracy felt, - LOagstreGJ express
ed IL In late ar,i3 on this plain, that lmc
how II was an intuition VIC would be again a
reunited people When the war mad about
spent ITS last force ksr Li1cOln IN his second
inaugural, with the shadow of death lowering
over him, uttered these truths beth parties
deprecate war, both read from the same Bible
and pray to the same God, ana invoke his ai1
against the OJher- The PRAYER 81 both cannot
be answered. Neither has been fully answered.
But let Us iudge not lest we be judged. With
malice toward hone, with charity .or all; VITA
h-mness in the right, Is God gives Us 10 see
the right, let Us finish he WORK We are IN. To
bn7 up the nations wounds, TO csrc for him
who shall nave RE the battle, and for his
widow and orphans, and 10 90 all which may
achieve Il lasting Place Tor ourselves and ali
nations
Soldiers, with these immortal words all alanc
in nov heart, !, as enc of the VaEuuished who Is
TO the manor born, and who never saw across
the line of Mason and Dixon before this battle,
come now TO help you cnwreath this map, these
pictures anu Llt5G graves, In nOnOr oil
the heroes who died here as these
flowers die-as a sacrifice for others,
May the bruised ar oma from these frail low
ers ascend on hi8h and mingle their perfume
with the sUirlts of those gone be ore The
death of these flowers wildly recall q simple
legend of the red man Of long ago. Ii was told
;hr young brave Hiawatha by his good nurse
NOkOmis IN his childhood days, when all things
on earth and IN the SKY were strange to his IN.
tutoTed mind. Hiawatha sees the rainbow
flung out in the sky and asks, what is that,
n k0mis: And the good Nokomis answered
" All the vii flowers OF the forest, all the lilies
Of the prairie. When on earth, they fade and
perish, blossom in that heaven aUove u.s.
We had tradition in our camps, and doubt
less the same IN yours, that brave mans
Split was never wholly lost, but, when called
upon to yield It back to Him who kaye, IL forth
with assembled on high to the pearly gases kept
by Saint Peter, and while the recording angels
were looking up he marks OF his transgressions
they plotted them all away in their tears.
Soldiers, the rainbow of peace is again IN the
sky, and when we review how far we have ad-
ven2ed the STATE OF mans better life on the
dial plate OF time, we can truly say with the
dead ,5ranj IN the last days OF his saCrtdcial
sutterngs.
THE WAR IS WORTH ALL IT COST.
] will again qlOie rom MIR. Lincoln in his
1CGicltiOn Grafton on this spot in November
the battle, as b-tug more superbly
grand than anything that has ever been written
Jn The subject. He SAYS: "Eut in s. larger
sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot cCrse-
crate we cannot hallOw this GROUND. The
here, have co0secrated II far above our wcr
10 add or cetracl. The world will little .te nor
org remember what we say here, but s. Can
never forget what they did here. 1t is rather
Tor US, the living, to be here dedicated to the
task remaining before us. That from these
lonored dead we take increased devotion to
mat cause for which they gave the last fun |
measure OF devotion That VIC here highly |
resolve tina. these dead shall not have died IN |
vain. That this nation shall have
4 NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM.
That government OF the people, by the people !
lnd for the p. OD!e, shall not perish from thH |
EARTH ] VIII not pass unnUtiCed the sad |
tragedy Of his taking of
Forgive me, Il from present things 1 turn.
70 peak what, in my heart, Will beat gnd burn. |
And hang my wreath on his world renowned !
uIn."
At 3 time when the days of the south were
lark and dTeary, and In the darkest of all, there
rose an unbalanced spirit born on neutral !
ground, but falsely claiming 10 speak for the
outh, and when the nation was daZed and |
RACED with wars deepest woes, he, seeking to
hrust his name where his mtrits could not
limb, unbidden, dastardly did 10 death MIN
whom the nation had led so kindly, and VINO
lad followed on so blindly, trusting alone in
lis simple word and ample heart. i look upon
lincoln and Lee as the representative
ach of the war on the side
If each, in the sphere of each
lincoln, holding in his firm grasp the central
,ower. Lee, bearing away Cheeriully the bur
len of his state rights, disassOLiated with gov.
interference.
In looking back over the many sad scenes of
var and camp, have never beheld tie charaC-
er or our beloved cniettaiu In a grander light,
n at more solemn time, than on the ni2ht of
he third day atGettysburg, when Picketts for
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